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The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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A brief review of recent technical “errors” at Meta:
1. Restricting the Facebook pages of Brazilian president Lula who is in a runoff election against a Trump-favored candidate
2. Shutting down the pages of Albanians protesting Jared Kushner’s plans to build a luxury resort in the country
3. Rejecting ads for a documentary critical of Elon Musk
4. Shutting down the No Kings instagram page in the middle of a major anti-Trump protest
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Will be very interesting to see how football governance views more than £900m of financial doping over nine years compared to a lad in jeans with an iPhone. Hard to justify anything other than the harshest possible sanctions. Feel for Man City fans, they’ve been cheated as well.
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🚨🚨A White House official tells me: "Ambassdor Huckabee’s comments on the UK sanctions against Israeli settlements were not coordinated with the White House or Main State."
"This is an irrational action... if the UK is really interested in dealing with issues they feel like are wrong, where are the sanctions against North Korea, China, Russia?"
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who has accused the UK government and Ed Miliband of 'Jew hate' speaks to @annaefoster about the plan to sanction goods and services from West Bank settlements.
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The UK sanctions on Russia include over 3400 designations. The UK also has a sanctions regime against North Korea. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief… gov.uk/guidance/democ…
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Drivers have stolen an average of nearly £200,000 worth of fuel from UK petrol stations every day since the start of the Iran oil crisis, according to analysis.
Fuel theft prevention company Forecourt Eye said incidents of fuel taken without payment soared by 20% in the five months after the conflict began on February 28th, compared to the five months before.
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Hermano,
Has ganado el mundial. Has hecho historia. 🥹❤️
Pero más allá del trofeo, gracias por esto: has hecho que millones de inmigrantes como nuestros padres se sientan orgullosos de que sus futuros hijos algun dia puedan vivir lo que tu has vivido y de que millones de españoles empaticen con nuestra historia que no es solo la nuestra sino la de todas las personas que dejan todo atrás por un futuro mejor, porque has tocado el cielo con los dedos y has demostrado que con trabajo y esfuerzo todo es posible.
Hoy el mundo te ha conocido mas si cabe y has puesto nuestro apellido en el infinito, por lo siglos de los siglos.
Te admiro. Te amo. Campeón del mundo ✊🏿🏆🥹
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Before #FIFA start pumping the propaganda tonight and telling us all how amazing this #WorldCup has been, let’s remember they oversaw:
- highest ticket prices ever and took a cut from resale sites.
- did nothing about Somalian referee and dozens of staff who were banned from entering the US for no legitimate reason.
- stood by as Iran were forced to train outside the US and travel in on match days.
- overturned red cards after phone calls with the president.
- Americanised the beautiful game with hydration (TV) breaks and 25 mins half time in the final
- guided Argentina through the tournament with less travel, VAR support and blatantly turning a blind due to their aggression and foul play.
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“Could”? It 100% demonstrably breaches FIFA regulations.
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For my entire life Argentina have been our footballing enemy.
A jingoistic enmity wrapped up in Argentina’s inferiority complex, the Falklands War and the Hand of God.
The tragedy of this World Cup is that of all the teams to capitulate to it’s them. England need to embrace the history and learn not to be weighed down by it.
The “Malvinas” shtick makes it difficult to hate them more.
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Just going to leave this here...
Before Southgate:
1984: Did not qualify
1986: Quarter-finals
1988: Group stage, lost every game
1990: Semi-final
1992: Group stage
1994: Did not qualify
1996: Semi-final
1998: Last 16
2000: Group stage
2002: Quarter-finals
2004: Quarter-finals
2006: Quarter-finals
2008: Did not qualify
2010: Last 16
2012: Quarter-finals
2014: Group stage
2016: Last 16
Under Southgate:
2018: Semi-final
2020: Final
2022: Quarter-finals
2024: Final
Say what you want about Southgate, but England were not doing this before him.
He laid the foundations for this England team.
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The Football Association is reportedly considering appealing against England's Red Card against Mexico, after a USA player had his ban suspended by FIFA following a controversial intervention from Donald Trump.
The move has led to football's governing body being accused of bringing the integrity of the World Cup under threat. Despite being sent off in their last match, striker Folarin Balogun played in the U.S. defeat to Belgium overnight. Trump told reporters he made the appeal as he believed the dismissal was unfair.
@WiTullis has the latest.
#football #worldcup #usa #england
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Madame Celeste Amarilla,
Vous êtes une femme méprisable et indigne de sa fonction.
Vous ne représentez pas le Paraguay, ce pays qui a transpiré la passion et l’honneur tout au long de la compétition. Par votre inconscience et votre racisme décomplexé, le monde entier a déjà oublié le parcours et l’effort historique que vos joueurs ont réalisés durant cette coupe du monde pour laisser place à une dame incompétente donnant la pire image possible de son pays.
Je ne laisserai jamais aux gens comme elle, la liberté de laisser propager leur haine et leur racisme à travers le monde.
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ITV has agreed the sale of its media and entertainment business to Sky for up to £1.6 billion, the companies have announced.
The companies said the deal will combine the division with Sky to create a major competitor to the global streaming giants.
@WiTullis has the latest.
#sky #itv #entertainment
Delivery companies could face fines and bosses imprisoned if they’re found to be employing people who don’t have the right to work, under new @ukhomeoffice rules.
@CPhilpOfficial told me this new enforcer doesn’t go far enough.
@RhettaMoran1 @raparuk say migrant workers are being scapegoated. @GMB @itvnews
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You can take the man out of the presenting chair but you can't take the presenter out of @GaryLineker 😅
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Trading Standards says Meta must do more to protect people from online scams in yet another push for greater regulation of social media platforms.
An estimated 15 billion scam adverts appear on Facebook every day with Meta raking in billions of pounds a year in revenue from them. Consumer groups say criminal gangs are exploiting consumers and the government needs to do more to hold big tech companies to account.
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Could under-16s soon be banned from using social media?
In a speech today the Prime Minister is expected to say that tech companies will be obliged to build in software safeguards or face criminal sanctions.
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37 years ago the Chinese army killed large numbers of people in Beijing and elsewhere when it cracked down on student protests. I was there and saw it happen myself. Nowadays China tries to claim the Tiananmen massacre was invented by the international media. That’s a total lie.
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"Whatever was going on, however frightening or volatile, he always managed to make you feel slightly better about it."
@vicderbyshire pays tribute to Sir Alex Younger, the former head of MI6 and #Newsnight regular, who has died aged 62.